Canada rocked on its foundations: Tim Horton rims rigged?

In a story that might topple governments from coast to coast, it is being alleged that Tim Hortons coffee cup rims may have been tampered with:

Some Nova Scotians believe Tim Hortons employees are rolling up the rim to rip them off.

But the company is apologizing for a manufacturing error that makes it appear someone has tampered with the rims of some of its disposable coffee cups in Atlantic Canada.

"When I take off my top, I’ve been noticing the rim has already been rolled up, and a lot of people have been noticing that," said Richard O’Brien, a construction worker from Halifax.

Cars, powerboats, global positioning systems, gift cards, coffees and doughnuts are among the prizes up for grabs.

He figures employees from the ubiquitous coffee chain are checking under the rims to try to win prizes for themselves or their friends.

"I’d say it would be the back shifts that are doing it," Mr. O’Brien said.

"As soon as you take the top of the cup off, you can see two little crimps in the sides where they just flipped it up to see if it was a winner."

He won a few free coffees and doughnuts after the annual contest started Feb. 25, but lately the free crullers have been few and far between.

"I work on a construction site and nobody has been winning," Mr. O’Brien said.

Anecdotally, I have overheard several coffee addicts moaning that they think the Timmy coffee cup contest is less generous this year than in previous years . . . they uniformly say they've rarely won anything at all, where in other contests they'd at least had a few free coffee or donut prizes.

Fark wins the prize for reporting, though: